Hypomanic personality features and addictive tendencies

Hypomania-prone individuals may experience themselves as more likely to have an 'addictive personality' and to be intensely engaged in the pursuit of many pleasurable activities, from listening to music or consuming chocolate and caffeine to excessive devotion to work, exercise, and other activities. This intense pleasure-pursuit can potentially result in high achievement, mastery and resource acquisition, but the same addiction-like pleasure-pursuit can also result in the more harmful consequences associated with mania and related clinical syndromes.